A Thermodynamic Introduction to Transport Phenomena

In engineering programs, courses on Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat and Mass Transfer are the pillars of Thermofluids education. Typically these courses are taught side by side, and at best it is made vaguely clear that the pillars not only stand on the same ground, but are as well connected in many ways.
Studying transport processes in Thermofluids from a unified viewpoint, with a clear mathematical language, enhances each sub-field, by deepening insight, and opening possibilities for exploration.
This book provides material for a one semester course on Transport Phenomena in which the common ground and the connections are thoroughly explored. The target audience is senior undergraduate and incoming graduate students in engineering and applied sciences, and, of course, their instructors. The emphasis of the presentation lies on principles, methods, and techniques, and not on the deep exploration of particular transport processes or systems. The development of the transport equations–global and local balance laws for mass, momentum, energy and entropy–is universally valid. However, the study of transport processes through solutions of the equations considers mostly simple materials, i.e., ideal gases and incompressible liquids, in simple geometries to allow for (mostly) analytical solutions.